Professor Stephen Jacobs' Work Featured on the Cover of the Advanced Functional Materials
April 6, 2005Professor Stephen Jacobs' Work Featured on the Cover of the Advanced Functional Materials
(April, 2005) Professor Stephen Jacobs and co-workers have published a paper that is featured on the cover of February issue of Advanced Functional Materials. The paper shows that micrometer-sized shaped flakes exhibit brilliant circularly polarized selective reflection colors without polarizers of color filters when placed in fluid-filled electro-optic cell. A variety of shapes can be fabricated from polymer cholesteric liquid-crystal materials using soft lithography. With the application of a low-magnitude alternating current field, the flakes reorient in hundreds of milliseconds and colors disappear. Such LC flakes are interesting candidates for particle displays.